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08-04-2003, 05:42 AM
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XP - Install Failure Repeating
Hey guys... long story short here... fan went out, mortherboard followed shortly thereafter. Installed new powersupply, new motherboard... then hard drive didn't want to boot. Figured it was due to hardware being different. Couldn't even load safe mode. Tried to run XP repair with no luck. Then tried to reinstall XP. No luck, started having error messages about files couldn't be copied. (Tried this several times and it failed at different files every time.) Had a new hard drive. Put that in as master and old hard drive as slave. Tried to install XP on that and it keeps failing... gets to a certain point then starts saying it can't copy a file... then says the same thing for every file after that. Same problem, different hard drive. Saw something in another thread about removing jumpers on HD to make it cable select instead of master. Tried changing jumpers from master to cable select. BIOS did detect the HD correctly but still same problem. Microsoft doesn't open for another 3 hours. Any suggestions?
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08-04-2003, 06:28 AM
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Are you using the same RAM. XP is particular about RAM and it could be faulty as a result of mobo failure. If you have multiple sticks, try with just on and then the other. Try different RAM if possible.
Also could be power related. What kind of power supply? Chas
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08-04-2003, 09:09 AM
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Try another IDE cable too.
Post your system specs.  Cricket
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08-04-2003, 04:14 PM
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Power supply is brand new. Just installed it yesterday. It was the first thing to go. After installing that we discovered the motherboard was hosed. Here's the specs I have on this system:
MSI KT4V Motherboard (onboard audio and LAN) AMD 1700 1.44Ghz 1G PC2100 DDR Dual Maxtor 20G Allied 350 Power Supply Toshiba Floppy Drive Geo Force 2 Titanium 64M AGP Trying an old fashioned fdisk on it right now... currently it's rebuilding the primary dos partition. : / I could see it having this problem with one hard drive... but the same problem with both hard drives? Microsoft's big tech offering was the CD drive might be bad... I had to inquire if that's the same CD drive we've been getting the install of XP, 98, Maxtor software and Norton system tools from... ::shrugs:: |
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08-06-2003, 12:53 PM
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Thank you for posting this, Kittyfire, and thank you, Confused, for your response. I was having a similar problem and it was, indeed, bad RAM. I replaced that stick and added more and all is working well.
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08-06-2003, 01:53 PM
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Glad you found some help Carl. I don't know why XP is so particular about RAM, but it sure seems to come up a lot on this forum.
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08-06-2003, 06:38 PM
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For anybody who reads this> Almost all XP Stop Errors (Blue Screens can be trace to IRQ conflicts or RAM. Don't even bother reading them or doing what it suggest on the screen.
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